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I appreciate that this may die the death but has anyone played any good Android games yet? I'm currently running an HTC Desire and had the old HTC G1 for ages.

**** 9th Sept 2010: AS REQUESTED I HAVE UPDATED THE TOP POST WITH ALL THE SUGGESTED GAMES (we were at page 15)***

Ok, here's everything everyone has suggested so far (I think), I've tried to put things into categories that make sense. Nevertheless Multiplayer and Arcade Action are catch alls for things that I couldn't think of a better category for. Where possible I've included the any one line summary people included.

In future it would be super awesome if people could include the android market or appbrain links for any game they suggest.

PUZZLEGem Miner:Dig Deeper: Genuinely awful and utterly boring resource management/exploration game. I really can't believe I bothered to complete a play through.Drop 7Trap! is kind of fun. Simple little puzzle / reflex / timing game. You have to isolate sections of the board without letting the bouncing balls hit your line as it's drawing. This is the game I pull up when I have 5 minutes to kill waiting somewhere.Angry Birds stupidly popular smash the structures puzzlerAngry Birds RioAngry Birds SeasonsAlchemy combine objects to make other objectsTetris err... tetrsBejeweled 2Mechanics Touch lemmings style puzzlerJewels Bejewled cloneJewellust Bejewled cloneBlow UpSpace PhysicsEverlandsCut The Rope elegant gravity driven rope cutting puzzlerAirport Mania - Really nice little air traffic control/time management game. The difficulty curve is a little screwy in each world. Usually the first levels of each world are hardest but once you've bought all the airport upgrades the last levels in each world turn out to be really easy. That said getting all your planes moving in synchrony is really hypnotic and fun.180Walkabout - Quite a nicely presented little puzzle game, has a couple of interface niggles but I found it to be a pleasant pass time. Satisfying to complete the levels but I didn't find any of them to be especially hard.QBism - lovely looking puzzle game. You have to slide cubes into place to build a shape in 3D which you only get the silhouette for. Like walkabout the interface can be niggly (rotating the blocks sometimes instead of moving them) and it is clearly optimised to work best on a tablet computer. Not too sure about the difficulty maybe I'm just very good at conceptualising 3D objects but I've not found a puzzle so far that hasn't been pretty obvious. YMMVBurn the Rope- Burn rope patterns by tilting and rotating your phone. Fire only burns upward.

SHMUPXGalaxy 2: Galaxians clone, fairly hard and not especially noteworthy. Gets a bit bullet hell in places but perhaps that's more to do with running it on a much faster phone, seemed the previous version didn't seem as tough on the slower G1Sky Force 16bit style shmupSky Force reloaded: Reworking of Sky Force. It's a pretty standard but well executed top down shmup a lot like being transported back to the 16Bit era. Not especially challenging unless you're on the hardest level.EXZeusRadiant Nice galaxians style thingMiniSquadron! biplane shooterMiniSquadron SEPirate Wings Pilot wings cloneGun BrosPewPew Good twin stick shooterPewPew2Guerllia Bob - Great looking but fairly linear twin stick shooter. Nice bit of fun, although can be fiddly on a small screen.SILPHEED AlternativeAirAttack HD- 1943 with high-rez graphics.

RACINGSpeedX 3D: Avoid-the-obstacles tunnel racer. Surprisingly addictive and much better executed than any reviews or screen shots suggest. I've only had it a couple of days and I've already played it longer than is healthy. Also how have people on the high score table scored such massive scores, does it run loads slower on the older Android phones?Raging Thunder 2Reckless RacingKamikaze RaceNeed For Speed:ShiftWave BlazerJet Car Stunts - Haven't played too much of this yet but seems great. I forget if someone already posted this.Return Zero

PLATFORMDynamoKid: Constantly scrolling procedurally generated platformer that plays a little like playing one of those constantly scrolling mario levels. Not especially noteworthy either but pretty addictive, like Buka if could benefit from some multitouch so you can make the kid jump and kill enemies at the same time.Doodle JumpAbduction!City JumpMega JumpLame CastleThey Need to Be Fed - Gravity-driven platform/puzzle game.

ARCADE ACTIONFlight Frenzy: Obvious clone of the iphone's Flight Control. Bold cartoony graphics but the path finding/finger following isn't as good as it might be so occasionally it decides a drawn path leads to beside the landing point. You get 5 airports/maps. Pretty Ok I suppose.Flight Director: A different clone of Flight Control. 7 real world airports/maps cribbed from google maps, 3 levels of difficulty, good path finding/following. There were plenty of frequent updates and extra maps. All in all I'd say it's better than Flight Control. The only irksome thing is that when it updates it clears your high scores.Buka : strange, kind of asteroid clone, where you have to protect Buka from in-falling 'monsters' (read asteroids). Nice clean graphics and quickly gets pretty tough, would really benefit from being multi-touch enabled in the latest round of devices.Air ControlHungry sharkDeath Worm - Essentially Tremors: The Game where you play as a Graboid.

CARD GAMESWorld Series of Poker - Not quite as nice as Apples Texas Hold 'em but pretty good. Graphics are good and the gameplay is fun. Overall polish is pretty high compared to most of the things I've seen so far on Android. One of the main things I miss is the ability to force a hand to finish once you fold.

SPORTSSuper KO Boxing 2 - Nice graphics and the interface is decent. Like punch-out but I found it even more difficult than Punch Out for the Wii with the balance board. I got frustrated enough to return it. Too bad since it is a very nicely polished game that could be a lot of fun.Homerun Battle 3DBackbreaker Football

MULTIPLAYERBoogers vs. Goobers - Simple graphics, decent sound. Worms/Scorched Earth game. One odd thing is that when you shoot something that hits the top of the screen it just stops there and travels straight across the screen. Not bad and I see potential.Armored Strike Online is a Worms/Scorched earth type game. I picked it up last night and I like it a lot better than Boogers vs Goobers. Graphics, sound, and general gameplay is better. It also has an online component which I have not tried yet. You can play vs up to 4 opponents.Cestos

Eden Obscura, from the PixelJunk team, is pretty fun. The controls are surprising intuitive for mobile play and how they use the phone's camera lends an interesting variety to the atmosphere of each level. A few changes from the original include a variety of grimp (playable characters) to choose from, each with unique attributes, and pre-garden selectable power-ups that modify gameplay that take time/chance to replenish. While the power-ups do make interesting/useful changes to how a garden is played, I haven't found them to be necessary to finish any given garden this far. The game itself is free, though I did already pay them for access to a new level, perhaps unnecessarily, because I wanted to support the devs for their continually appreciated work.

Eden Obscura, from the PixelJunk team, is pretty fun. The controls are surprising intuitive for mobile play and how they use the phone's camera lends an interesting variety to the atmosphere of each level. A few changes from the original include a variety of grimp (playable characters) to choose from, each with unique attributes, and pre-garden selectable power-ups that modify gameplay that take time/chance to replenish. While the power-ups do make interesting/useful changes to how a garden is played, I haven't found them to be necessary to finish any given garden this far. The game itself is free, though I did already pay them for access to a new level, perhaps unnecessarily, because I wanted to support the devs for their continually appreciated work.

Thank you for bringing this up. I'd played a fair bit of PixelJunk Eden on the PS3 but could never quite get past the controls. I'm on a few stages in to this version but so far it seems to be closer to what i was hoping Eden was in the first place.

I've been playing a lot of Solitairica. The simplest way I can describe it is reverse battle solitaire. You are trying to get all the cards back into your hand before the AI kills you. It's that simple, but it has me hooked for the time being.

Solitairica is amazingly addictive. I have beaten the emperor on epic on with all but two of the characters (primal included). I'm looking forward to completing bard and barbarian runs, if only so that I don't get sucked in for 10-15 minutes while I'm waiting in line for groceries.

Finally having a device that can play android apps, I decided to try Solitairica, but there is something I may not be understanding about the progression system. I do understand that it's rogue-like and you lose everything between attempts, but is this a game that you have to play from beginning to end without turning it off, or is there some way that it saves progression if you don't die and just want to stop the game and start again later? Or do people really play for something like 27 hours straight?

So far, it's fun, but having to keep fighting the same one or two creatures at the beginning of the game because that's all I have time for in a session will probably get a lot less exciting.

Rebecca

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Finally having a device that can play android apps, I decided to try Solitairica, but there is something I may not be understanding about the progression system. I do understand that it's rogue-like and you lose everything between attempts, but is this a game that you have to play from beginning to end without turning it off, or is there some way that it saves progression if you don't die and just want to stop the game and start again later? Or do people really play for something like 27 hours straight?

So far, it's fun, but having to keep fighting the same one or two creatures at the beginning of the game because that's all I have time for in a session will probably get a lot less exciting. :)

I typically don't close the app, I leave it running in the background. Whenever I open it again it picked right up where I left off.

I force close it after beating a level. Always picks up where I left off. Seems to save after I buy something in the shop as well.
I wish it did have a cloud save feature though. I recently got a new phone and lost all my history.

I'm not sure what Apple has, but I'm pretty sure emulation is only available on Android. You can play some nice SNES/GBA/N64/Gamecube(?) games on android, and usb controllers are ridiculously easy to set up. It's pretty amazing!

One wheel to rule them all
One wheel to ride them
One wheel to balance them all
And on the street pass by them
- Grenn

Nice suggestions. I've got Pocket City on the iPad and it's great there. I like the sound of Solitarica and Card Crawl. Thanks!

So what's the motorsport manager one?

It's a racing management sim. You build a racing team and find drivers, mechanics, engineers, build car parts, expand your HQ, train new drivers, etc. Between races. During races you manage racing strategies, when to pit, what tires to put on, when to push/conserve, watch weather etc. It's been really addictive for me. I've bought every version of the game on mobile and pc.